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small flocks, at uncertain intervals. Lariggan, &c. One or two 

 specimens seen in the gardens at Trescoe Abbey, Scilly. 



[We must cease to regard the hawfinch as merely a winter visitant. 

 Mr. Doubleday, in the first place, and several ornithologists subse- 

 quently, have obtained specimens at all seasons of the year, and have 

 proved beyond all question that it breeds freely in England.— £". A'.] 



Goldfinch. — Rather locally distributed. 



Siskin. — Winter visitant: rare in the county generally. Lariggan, 

 Gulval, &c. 



(Siskins appeared in considerable numbers on the 2nd of December 

 1867.) 



Linnet. — Universally distributed. 



Lesser Redpole, — Very rare throughout the county. 



Mountain Linnet. — Very rare; one specimen only recorded as 

 captured in the Penzance district. 



Bullfinch. — Locally distributed and novrhere numerous. 



Crossbill. — Rare : seen at distant and uncertain intervals in small 

 flocks. Rosemorran, Trebartha woods. 



(I believe I have mentioned the general distribution of the bird in 

 the Land's End locality, extending to the Scilly Isles. I find from 

 correspondents that the eastern part of the county has had an 

 immense immigration of this species, and from what I have seen and 

 heard during the past week the numbers appear to be steadily on the 

 increase. I have received from Scilly for some weeks several speci- 

 mens, and seven or eight specimens were brought over yesterday from 

 the Abbey gardens at Trescoe. I have received no specimen in a 

 vermilion state of red, but in those specimens where the colour of red 

 prevailed at all there was generally a subdued dull tile-red tone, 

 clouded over with brown and bluish gray more or less. One of the 

 specimens from Scilly yesterday was remarkable for its colouring; 

 the upper tail-coverts were bright canary-yellow, and the rest of the 

 body was intermixed with blotches of red, brown, gray and yellow. 

 A very large proportion of the specimens which have come under my 

 notice have been a dull brown, with an extra tone either of red 

 yellow or green on the upper tail-coverts, — July 29, 1868.) 



[The migration of crossbills into Cornwall to which Mr. Rodd here 

 alludes as having taken place in July, 1868, was noticed also by a 

 correspondent in the « Field ' of that date. Similar and simultaneous 

 immigrations were observed in several parts of Ireland, also in 

 Devonshire, Somersetshire and Gloucestershire.] 



